As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful… — Tony Millionaire Copy Share Image
There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“17 Christmases is a delightful children's book that I would highly recommend” — Dandi Daley Mackall Copy Share Image
To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division. — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know'… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live,… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
